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Photos that prove Audrey was right: Paris is always a good idea

Instagram users have been tagging their best snaps of the French capital with #ParisIsAlwaysAGoodIdea Credit:
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4 May 2016 • 6:02pm

"Paris is always a good idea" – so said Audrey Hepburn, who would have celebrated her 87th birthday today. To mark the occasion, Eurostar has been encouraging its social media followers to share images that corroborate the quotation, which comes from the 1954 film Sabrina.

Among the contributors to the hashtag are model Lily Cole, French actress Clémence Poésy (or Fleur Delacour for the Harry Potter generation) and singer Pixie Lott (for whom the main focus of the photo of Paris does seem to be herself).

Lily Cole's interpretation of "Paris is always a good idea", for EurostarCredit:
Lily Cole

Pixie Lott in Paris, as submitted to EurostarCredit:
Pixie Lott

Perhaps unsurprisingly for a city considered by many as the most beautiful in the world, Paris is hugely popular on Instagram; 47 million Instagram photos are tagged with #Paris and the hashtags #ParisMonAmour and #ParisByNight respectively have 180,000 and 280,000 photos associated with them.